GitHub's PAT is recognized as a Token, not PersonalAccessToken

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Type: Bug Task: GitHubRelease (v0/v1)

Environment

• Server - Azure Pipelines? Build link: https://dev.azure.com/ucfconsort/ucx/_build/results?buildId=1675&view=results
• Agent - Hosted (container):

Issue Description

I’m implementing release pipeline which should create a draft release on each tag pushed. I’ve created a PAT (admin:repo_hook, repo, user permissions) and tried to create a release manually, it worked. Then I created a Service connection using this PAT. But when I run my pipeline, I’m getting this error: The pipeline is not valid. Job release: Step GitHubRelease input gitHubConnection expects a service connection of type github with authentication scheme OAuth,PersonalAccessToken but the provided service connection release2 is of type github using authentication scheme Token.

I tried to ask on similar issue (#9394) but no answer.

[ljvmiranda921]

Ok, I was able to solve the problem above by creating a personal access token. You can do so by following the instructions here. The minimal scope for the token can be: Service Connections (Read, query, & manage). Be sure to click the “other 27 scopes” so this would appear.

After creating the token you need to (1) base64 encode it and (2) copy-paste it in your request. In my case, I just used Postman rather than the usual cURL since the former does step 1 automatically. For Postman, simply go to the “Authorization” tab and fill-in your Username and Password (the generated token)

Then for the request just go to Body, click the raw radio button. Then click the dropdown and change it from Text to JSON. You can then put the request as above (I’ll copy-paste it here for clarity):

{
  "name": "release",
  "type": "github",
  "url": "https://github.com",
  "authorization": {
    "scheme": "PersonalAccessToken",
    "parameters": {
      "accessToken": "<TODO-GITHUB-PERSONAL-ACCESS-TOKEN>"
}
  }
}

By clicking the Send command, you should be able to confirm that the Service Connection has been created properly:

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Can also be found in my blog here: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2019/12/28/workaround-azure-github-pat/

[amaslenn]

@twpayne I created a Personal Access Token in Azure and used it with curl:

curl -u USER:PAT https://dev.azure.com/{{ORG}}/...

Got smth like this as the final cmd: curl -u USER:PAT -d '{"name": "release","type": "github","url": "https://github.com","authorization":{"scheme":"PersonalAccessToken","parameters":{"accessToken":"GITHUB_PAT"}}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST 'https://dev.azure.com/{{ORG}}/{{PROJ}}/_apis/serviceendpoint/endpoints?api-version=5.1-preview'

Hope it helps.